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12-16-2008, 02:29 AM | #182 |
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Tiffany Aching is The Wee Free Men (excellent), A Hat Full of Sky (excellent) and Wintersmith (not bad, I'd save Wintersmith until you have no other pratchett left or just have to have more Feegles in your life.). In that order.
I wouldn't bother with the non discworld novels until you've finished discworld There's a good list here http://wiki.lspace.org/wiki/Bibliography I'm not suggesting that some of them aren't just as good. My personal favorites are Wyrd Sisters, Guards! Guards!, Men at Arms, Pyramids, Small Gods and Carpe Jugulum but you could grab any you like the look of. If you read The Colour of Magic, read The Light Fantastic right after since it's the only real duology (better than the movie btw). Of the discworlds, I'd save Wintersmith and Monstrous Regiment for last as I think they're the weakest but that's just my opinion. oops, one more note. If someone is starting with The Colour of Magic, skip all the prologue, foreword, preface stuff and go straight for the story. Get into the story before you try to learn the physics and astronomy and that background stuff Mr. Pratchett thought you needed to know. It put me off from reading the book the first few times I tried and fortunately I read a later book and got hooked, then went back and realized what it was that was so off-putting. His strength isn't world painting, it's dialogue and plot where his brilliance shines. Again, in my opinion. Last edited by wayspooled; 12-16-2008 at 03:56 AM. |
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12-16-2008, 12:07 PM | #183 |
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I'm plugging on with reading them in publication order ... introductions and all. And, so far, that is working for me extremely well.
I rather enjoy leaving a character for awhile, moving through some other part of the Discworld, and then coming back to that character later. I also really like the fact that I know a character's back-story (like the Librarian ---- "ook") from its beginning. I haven't found a book I haven't really enjoyed yet .... |
12-16-2008, 01:35 PM | #184 |
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Yeah, whatever order you're enjoying them in, is the right order
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My younger daughter (14) is just finishing Wee Free Men. She's going to read A Hatfull of Sky next. I may see if I can pry her away from her moody goth vampire books long enough to read the rest of the Witches books, but I don't think she'd go for the others. Maybe the Susan books, though there's a lot of context she'd be missing with Soul Music--not Discworld context, either, but stuff in our world. She'd probably like The Hogfather and Thief of Time, though. |
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I found the portrayal of Death in Hogfather (movie version) to be quite good.
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12-20-2008, 10:53 AM | #190 |
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I think I just found out about another major gap in my education ...
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So that's why I can't get my head around most of these threads.
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After reading the books don't forget to look at "The Annotated Pratchett File". There you can find most of the references you might have missed. There is no information on more recent books (2004), but it should be enough.
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